Process of making ammonia and chlorin or hydrochloric acid.



N. L. G. WHTEHGUSE. PROCESS 0F MAKING AMMONIA AND GHLORIN OR HYDROGHLORGUID.

APPLc'ATIoN ULEB U1-1E 25,1908,

Patened June E5, MGS.

` may be obtained,l but this does not compenner `to absorb the ammo-nia from it.

sato the yadditionalWear ofthe a paratus.

lIf'steam be substituted for air, ydrogen vchlorid is obtained.

'In the accompahying drawing Figure 1 is a longitudinal section and Fig.` 2 an end eleva- .tion of an iron boi-ler a, having a fire-brick lining b and hollow trunnions c, d mounted to turn in suitable bearings.`l Through a man- Y hole e is introduced the mixture f of cerium oxid and ammonium ehlorid. The boiler is then slowly revolved While hot producer gas is blown through trunnion c until the tem erature Within the boiler rises toabout 300o thetem erature of the producergas and the area ov the longitudinal ilanges g being' such that vthe temperature cannot much e'x-Q eeed 300 C; The vgas leaving the boilervv through trunnion d is treated in known man- When ammonia-is no longer evolved hot air is sub stituted for the hot producer gas, lthe temperature of the air being suoli that the ternperature'of the contents of the boiler rises to and remains at about 450 500 C., -the chlorin being absorbed in 1sinovvn manner from the air issuing through the trunnion d.

Having thus described the nature of my said invention and the best means I know of carrying the same into practical eiiect, I

" claim e* 1. A process for vobtaining chlorin from ammonium chlorid consisting in heating at a low temperature ammonium ehlorid with an oxid of a rare earth metal, ada ted to expel ammonia from ammonium ch orid at that' temperature and' then heating the residue at a higher temperature in an atmosphere adapted to expel ohlorin from a chlorin Compound of a rare earth meVJ ai at the said higher temperature.

2. The manufacture of ammonia and chlorin from ammonium chlorid by heating at a low temperature ammonium chlorid with cerium oxid whereby ammonia is expelled and then heating the residue at a higher tem-4 perature in an oxidizing atmosphere.

In testimony whereof I have signed my ,name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

NORMAN LESLIE GRAY WHITEHOUSE.

Witnesses r JosErI-I MILL/inn, OLIVER IRMALL. 

